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May. 6, 2021
Dr. Yitzhak Arad, a Holocaust survivor who went on to become a historian, brigadier general and longtime chairman of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center, passed away on Thursday at the age of 94.
“I built a physical site for visitors, which tells and presents the history of the Holocaust. I expanded the education and research of the subject and laid the foundations for making the place a world center for commemorating the memory of the Holocaust and its heritage,” he later recalled about his time at the helm of the museum and research institution. “Despite years of lack of diplomatic relations with the countries of the Communist bloc in Eastern Europe, I have been able to establish working relations with archives in these countries and obtain hundreds of thousands of documents relating to the Holocaust there.”